The child's conception of physical causality / / Jean Piaget ; [translated from the French by Marjorie Gabain]

• Autore: Piaget Jean <1896-1980.>
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., , 1930
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 309 pages :) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 155.412142
• Soggetto topico: Causation; Child psychology
• Altri autori: GabainMarjorie
• Note generali: Reprinted in 1999.
• Nota di contenuto: THE CHILD'S CONCEPTION OF PHYSICAL CAUSALITY; Copyright; Contents; Section I: Explanation of Movement; Chapter I. Experiments Concerning the Nature of air; 1. Pressure of the hands; 2. The air of the punctured ball, of the tube, and of the pump; 3. The making of air and the movement of projectiles; 4. Centrifugal force; Chapter II. The Origin of Wind and of Breath; 1.The formation of wind; 2. Breathing; Chapter III. Movement of the Clouds and the Heavenly Bodies; 1. The movement of clouds,; 2. The movement of the heavenly bodies ; Chapter IV. Water Currents and Movements due to Weight 1. The waves of the lake; 2. The current of rivers; 3. The suspension of the sun and moon, and the fall of heavy bodies to the ground; Chapter V. The Child's idea of Force; 1. How the child explains movement; 2. Definition of the idea of force; 3. Origin of the idea of force; Section II: Prediction and Explanation; Chapter VI. The Floating of Boats; 1. First and second stages: boats float for moral or dynamic reasons ; 2. Third stage: boats float owing to their own or to acquired movement and because they are light in relation to the total mass of water 3. Boats float for static reasons; Chapter VII.The Level of Water; 1. First stage: the water rises because of the weight of the submerged body; 2. Second and third stages: the rôle of volume is understood and made explicit; 3. Conclusions; 4. Prediction and explanation of the phenomenon of communicating vessels in children from 8 to 12 years old; Chapter VIII. The Problem of Shadows ; 1. First stage: shadow is a substance emanating from the object and participating with night 2. Second stage: shadow is a substance emanating from the object alone; 3. Third stage: shadow is a substance which flees from light; 4. Conclusions; Section III: Explanation of Machines; Chapter IX. The Mechanism of Bicycles; 1. First stage: the cause of the movement is synthetic; 2. Second stage: the various parts are necessary but unrelated; 3. Third and fourth stages: the search for contacts and mechanical explanation; Chapter X. The Steam-Engine ; 1. First stage: the wheel turns because of the fire 2. Second stage: the wheel turns because of the water; 3. Third stage: the wheel turns because of the steam; Chapter XI.Trains, Motor-Cars, and Aeroplanes; 1. Steam-engines and motor-boats; 2. Motorcars and aeroplanes; 3. Conclusions; Section IV: The Child's Conception of Reality and Causality; Summary and Conclusion; 1. The child's reality; 2. Causality and the child; 3. The child's idea of law; 4. Assimilation and imitation; 5. Child logic; 6. Logic and reality; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from one parking garage to another. The Child's Conception of Physical Causality, part of the very beginning of the ground-breaking work of the Swiss naturalist Jean Piaget, is filled with creative experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children.
• Titolo autorizzato: The child's conception of physical causality
• ISBN: 1-136-31645-0; 1-315-00963-3; 1-136-31638-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815494903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Developmental psychology ; ; 18.; International library of psychology ; ; 80.